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Originally Posted by bill_mchale
On what basis do you consider it ethically different?
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You have pointed out that the motivation for copyright is different from motivation of property right. So since there is a difference you can reason differently ethically. And using for example utilitarism I come to totally different conclusions also about how wrong it is and the reasoning differ.
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Those of us who consider it the ethical equivalent of theft have laid out a clear case for it to be considered so (i.e. the denial of fair payment for the labor the author and publisher have put into producing the book that you are making use of).
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Here you assume something "fair payment" that is a strange concept. You have to define that in the ethical system you use for the argument to be understandable.
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So, I want to know, what is your ethical justification for downloading the work of others and not paying them for that work?
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I am an utilitarist. So one possible motivation is that the utility on the worlds is increasing.